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Betsy Clark & Brad Clark are now offering a 2 day software estimation course that we bundle with the Costar Corporate License.
Donald J. Reifer does COCOMO II training. He also provides training & consulting in software engineering and management.
Ray Kile, the author of REVIC, provides consulting & training in software project management and software estimation.
The Software Technology Support Center is offering a course on Extreme Software Cost Estimating. These informative seminars are FREE to U.S. government employees. A trial version of Costar is distributed to each attendee.
The main COCOMO II page at USC.
The USC Center for Software Engineering home page. Softstar Systems is proud to sponsor Dr. Boehms's work -- we're one of the USC Affiliates.
The next COCOMO Meeting at USC.
Dick Stutzke has a site based on his book Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Projects, Products, and Processes.
The Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN).
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) home page.
Nasa has "The first on-line guide to Parametric cost estimating on the World Wide Web".
DAC's page has links to metrics pages and (gasp) other vendors.
Brad Appleton's Home Page has links to several thousand software engineering sites. He's managed to organize the sites so that it's very easy to find what you need.
Cetus has over 18,000 links on software engineering, with a special emphasis on object-orientation.
R. S. Pressman & Associates has a very good set of links related to software engineering and software management.
Membership in the Software Program Managers Network is free.
The Project Management Institute site pertains to both software and non-software management.
The DoD Software Information Clearinghouse: www.dacs.dtic.mil.
The Software Technology Support Center has lots of links to software metrics and process sites.
The Atlantic Systems Guild Inc. is a consulting organization specializing in the complex processes of system building. Tom DeMarco is a principal member of the guild.
Ed Yourdon's web site has a lot of good links to books and people.
The Software Engineering Management Research Laboratory has good information about software metrics events, sites, and other resources.
Howard Rubin hosts a site for Metrics Headline News.
Randy Jensen's decades of software estimating wisdom is condensed into the Sage tool.
The Software Engineering Laboratory has been doing software metrics & process work for over 20 years.
The IFPUG home page.
The ISPA home page.
Information about REVIC.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
For a different perspective on software development, try Midnight Engineering magazine.
The people at Better Bytes of Belmont are master web site builders.
Costar is so easy to use, and so well documented, that you won't need any training to operate the program.
But, to make good estimates, you do need to know about the underlying COCOMO estimation model . To learn just enough to be dangerous, check the COCOMO Overview.
You can learn enough about COCOMO in one afternoon from Software Engineering Economics or Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II to be making some good estimates. And, please feel free to call us with any of your modeling questions.
For a limited time, we're offering a free 2 day training course bundled with a Costar Corporate License.
We're happy to recommend other sources of training:
Another good way to learn about software estimation is to attend a conference or workshop. This is our favorite:
The Nineteenth International Forum on COCOMO and Software Cost Modeling, Los Angeles, October, 2004.
The 2004 meeting will be at USC.
This year's meeting will be preceded by a COCOMO tutorial.
This is the best place to learn about COCOMO. The meetings are small (70 to 90 people), and the heroes of the field present their latest work.
Softstar's Founder and President, Dan Ligett, has been on the Program Committee for all Nineteen of these workshops.
These COCOMO Forums are scheduled for the next few years:
October 25-28 2005
October 24-27 2006
October 23-26 2007
These are some other good sources of information about software estimating:
This book is the best place to start if you want to learn the rules for counting function points.
This group holds annual conferences, teaches courses about Function Points, and refines the counting rules.
This group develops and uses costing models for both software and hardware. They have a quarterly publication devoted to research and experience with the models.
One of the first papers published about function points. Albrecht developed function points. Good, brief, introduction.
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